Programming History

By Madgrom

  • Plankaul

    Developed by Konrad Zuse for engineering purposes

  • Fortan (Formula Translating System)

    Developed by John W. Backus for numeric and scientific computation.

  • MATH-MATIC

    Charles Katz developed the program to be an improvement over Fortan

  • COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)

    Developed by the CODASYL committee for business use

  • Lisp

    Created by John McCarthy for matematical notations but became populer in AI programming

  • BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

    Developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eigene Kurtz to teach programming

  • RPG (REport Programming Generator)

    Developed by IBM for business applications

  • LOGO

    Developed by Seymour Papert for educational purposes

  • B

    Developed by Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie to create software

  • PASCAL

    Developed by Niklaus Wirth and Kathleen Jensen to encourage good programming practices

  • SQL (Structured Query Language)

    Developed by IBM in order to manage data

  • C

    Developed by Dennis Ritchie as a general purpose language

  • ML (Metalanguage)

    Developed by Robin Milner for general purposes

  • C++

    Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup for system programming

  • ADA

    Developed by Jean Ichbiah and was designed for large applications

  • Python

    Developed by Guido van Rossum for general purposes with a focus on readability

  • Visual Basic

    Developed by Alan Cooper for general purposes and to be realtively easy to learn

  • Delphi

    Developed by Anders Hejlsberg for desktop and mobile applications

  • Java

    Developed by James Gosling as a general purpose programming language that can run on all devices that support it

  • Javascript

    Created by Brandan Elch for designing web pages

  • PHP

    Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf for general purposes with a focus on web development